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Analogues of the Bol operator for half-integral weight weakly holomorphic modular forms (2023)
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Diamantis, N., Lee, M., & Rolen, L. (2023). Analogues of the Bol operator for half-integral weight weakly holomorphic modular forms. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 152, 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/16435

We define an analogue of the Bol operator on spaces of weakly holomorphic modular forms of half-integral weight. We establish its main properties and relation with other objects.

Influencing a polarized and connected legislature (2023)
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Das Chaudhury, R., Leister, C. M., & Rai, B. (2023). Influencing a polarized and connected legislature. Games and Economic Behavior, 142, 833-850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2023.10.007

When can an interest group exploit polarization between political parties to its advantage? Building upon Battaglini and Patacchini (2018), we study a model where an interest group credibly promises payments to legislators conditional on voting for i... Read More about Influencing a polarized and connected legislature.

Comparison of lotions, creams, gels and ointments for the treatment of childhood eczema: the BEE RCT (2023)
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Ridd, M. J., Wells, S., MacNeill, S. J., Sanderson, E., Webb, D., Banks, J., …Santer, M. (2023). Comparison of lotions, creams, gels and ointments for the treatment of childhood eczema: the BEE RCT. Health Technology Assessment, 27(19), 1-120. https://doi.org/10.3310/gzqw6681

Background: Emollients are recommended for children with eczema (atopic eczema/dermatitis). A lack of head-to-head comparisons of the effectiveness and acceptability of the different types of emollients has resulted in a 'trial and error' approach to... Read More about Comparison of lotions, creams, gels and ointments for the treatment of childhood eczema: the BEE RCT.

Haemostatic therapies for stroke due to acute, spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (2023)
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Eilertsen, H., Menon, C. S., Law, Z. K., Chen, C., Bath, P. M., Steiner, T., …Al-Shahi Salman, R. (2023). Haemostatic therapies for stroke due to acute, spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2023(10), Article CD005951.pub5. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005951.pub5

Background
Outcome after acute spontaneous (non‐traumatic) intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) is influenced by haematoma volume. ICH expansion occurs in about 20% of people with acute ICH. Early haemostatic therapy might improve outcome by limiting ICH... Read More about Haemostatic therapies for stroke due to acute, spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage.

Evolution: The plasticity of plastids (2023)
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Howe, C. J., Nisbet, R. E. R., & Barbrook, A. C. (2023). Evolution: The plasticity of plastids. Current Biology, 33(20), R1058-R1060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.025

Many chloroplast-bearing plants and algae lost their photosynthetic activity during evolution but retained their chloroplasts for other functions. A group of dinoflagellate algae apparently lost one half of their photosynthetic machinery but retained... Read More about Evolution: The plasticity of plastids.

Developmental, cytogenetic and epigenetic consequences of removing complex proteins and adding melatonin during in vitro maturation of bovine oocytes (2023)
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Tutt, D. A. R., Guven-Ates, G., Kwong, W. Y., Simmons, R., Sang, F., Silvestri, G., …Sinclair, K. D. (2023). Developmental, cytogenetic and epigenetic consequences of removing complex proteins and adding melatonin during in vitro maturation of bovine oocytes. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 14, Article 1280847. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1280847

Background: In vitro maturation (IVM) of germinal vesicle intact oocytes prior to in vitro fertilization (IVF) is practiced widely in animals. In human assisted reproduction it is generally reserved for fertility preservation or where ovarian stimula... Read More about Developmental, cytogenetic and epigenetic consequences of removing complex proteins and adding melatonin during in vitro maturation of bovine oocytes.

Improving analgesia provision for sheep: An analysis of farm medicine records and attitudes towards pain relief on sheep farms in Northern Ireland (2023)
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Crawford, P. E., Hamer, K., Lovatt, F., Behnke, M. C., & Robinson, P. A. (2023). Improving analgesia provision for sheep: An analysis of farm medicine records and attitudes towards pain relief on sheep farms in Northern Ireland. Veterinary Record Open, 10(2), Article e75. https://doi.org/10.1002/vro2.75

Background
Management of pain is critical to improve the welfare of farmed livestock and meet consumer expectations. There is limited published information about the use of analgesic drugs in the sheep sector.

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A mixed-method approach was... Read More about Improving analgesia provision for sheep: An analysis of farm medicine records and attitudes towards pain relief on sheep farms in Northern Ireland.

Normal families and quasiregular mappings (2023)
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Fletcher, A. N., & Nicks, D. A. (2024). Normal families and quasiregular mappings. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 67(1), 79-112. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0013091523000640

Beardon and Minda gave a characterization of normal families of holomorphic and meromorphic functions in terms of a locally uniform Lipschitz condition. Here, we generalize this viewpoint to families of mappings in higher dimensions that are locally... Read More about Normal families and quasiregular mappings.

Tinnitus, Suicide, and Suicidal Ideation: A Scoping Review of Primary Research (2023)
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MacDonald, C., Caimino, C., Burns-O’Connell, G., Hartley, D., Lockwood, J., Sereda, M., …J. Hoare, D. (2023). Tinnitus, Suicide, and Suicidal Ideation: A Scoping Review of Primary Research. Brain Sciences, 13(10), Article 1496. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13101496

Tinnitus (the perception of sound in the absence of any corresponding external source) is highly prevalent and can be distressing. There are unanswered questions about how tinnitus, suicidal thoughts, and suicidal behaviours co-occur and interact. To... Read More about Tinnitus, Suicide, and Suicidal Ideation: A Scoping Review of Primary Research.

The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms (2023)
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Kemp, T., & Tomczak, P. (2023). The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms. Law and Social Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2023.63

This article examines the development of international human rights standards and oversight mechanisms directed at addressing the negative effects of imprisonment. We identify this as the rules-based prison-regulation project, widely endorsed by inte... Read More about The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms.

PASCal Python: A Principal Axis Strain Calculator (2023)
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Lertkiattrakul, M., Evans, M. L., & Cliffe, M. J. (2023). PASCal Python: A Principal Axis Strain Calculator. The Journal of Open Source Software, 8(90), Article 5556. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05556

The response of crystalline materials to external stimuli: whether temperature, pressure or electrochemical potential, is critical for both our understanding of materials and their use. This information can be readily obtained through in-situ diffrac... Read More about PASCal Python: A Principal Axis Strain Calculator.

Bioactive and chemically defined hydrogels with tunable stiffness guide cerebral organoid formation and modulate multi-omics plasticity in cerebral organoids (2023)
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Isik, M., Okesola, B. O., Eylem, C. C., Kocak, E., Nemutlu, E., D'Este, M., …Derkus, B. (2023). Bioactive and chemically defined hydrogels with tunable stiffness guide cerebral organoid formation and modulate multi-omics plasticity in cerebral organoids. Acta Biomaterialia, 171, 223-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2023.09.040

Organoids are an emerging technology with great potential in human disease modelling, drug development, diagnosis, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. Organoids as 3D-tissue culture systems have gained special attention in the past decades... Read More about Bioactive and chemically defined hydrogels with tunable stiffness guide cerebral organoid formation and modulate multi-omics plasticity in cerebral organoids.

The impact of COVID-19 related policy interventions on international systemic risk (2023)
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Bevilacqua, M., Duygun, M., & Vioto, D. (2023). The impact of COVID-19 related policy interventions on international systemic risk. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 89, Article 101859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2023.101859

We examine the relationship between systemic risk, its traditional financial and economic determinants, and the COVID-19 related policy interventions in an international framework. The COVID-19 outbreak period represents for us an ideal hub to test t... Read More about The impact of COVID-19 related policy interventions on international systemic risk.

The localization of galaxy groups in close proximity to galaxy clusters using cosmic web nodes (2023)
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Cornwell, D. J., Kuchner, U., Gray, M. E., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Pearce, F. R., Cui, W., & Knebe, A. (2024). The localization of galaxy groups in close proximity to galaxy clusters using cosmic web nodes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(1), 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3205

We investigate the efficacy of using the cosmic web nodes identified by the DisPerSE topological filament finder to systematically identify galaxy groups in the infall regions around massive clusters. The large random motions and infall velocities of... Read More about The localization of galaxy groups in close proximity to galaxy clusters using cosmic web nodes.

The three hundred project: thermodynamical properties, shocks, and gas dynamics in simulated galaxy cluster filaments and their surroundings (2023)
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Rost, A. M., Nuza, S. E., Stasyszyn, F., Kuchner, U., Hoeft, M., Welker, C., …Yepes, G. (2024). The three hundred project: thermodynamical properties, shocks, and gas dynamics in simulated galaxy cluster filaments and their surroundings. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(1), 1301-1316. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3208

Using cosmological simulations of galaxy cluster regions from THE THREE HUNDRED project, we study the nature of gas in filaments feeding massive clusters. By stacking the diffuse material of filaments throughout the cluster sample, we measure average... Read More about The three hundred project: thermodynamical properties, shocks, and gas dynamics in simulated galaxy cluster filaments and their surroundings.

Direct-expansion solar-assisted heat pump coupled with crystallisation-controlled supercooled PCM for shifting building electricity demand (2023)
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Kutlu, C., Zhang, Y., Lyu, Q., Su, Y., & Riffat, S. (2023). Direct-expansion solar-assisted heat pump coupled with crystallisation-controlled supercooled PCM for shifting building electricity demand. Energy and Buildings, 301, Article 113660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113660

This paper proposes a novel approach for improving the performance of a direct-expansion solar-assisted heat pump (DX-SAHP) system by integrating a crystallisation controllable phase change material (PCM) and building energy demand shifting strategy.... Read More about Direct-expansion solar-assisted heat pump coupled with crystallisation-controlled supercooled PCM for shifting building electricity demand.

Exploring the nuances of cooperation in public health – a critical reflection on default policies and reputation effects: a reply to ‘Nurturing, nudging and navigating the increasingly precarious nature of cooperation in public health: the cases of vaccination and organ donation’ by Heidi J. Larson and Alexander H. Toledo (2023)
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Ferguson, E., & Mills, R. (2023). Exploring the nuances of cooperation in public health – a critical reflection on default policies and reputation effects: a reply to ‘Nurturing, nudging and navigating the increasingly precarious nature of cooperation in public health: the cases of vaccination and organ donation’ by Heidi J. Larson and Alexander H. Toledo. Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 13(3-4), 323-343. https://doi.org/10.1332/20437897y2023d000000008